With seven games gone, the League Two table is beginning to take shape. It is rather predictable which end the Daggers find themselves at, as we look set for a third consecutive season of struggle with only goal difference keeping us out of the drop zone. What’s going wrong and is anything going right?

In mid-March the Daggers were doomed, sitting bottom of the league and hurtling towards a second successive relegation. Finally kicking into action, we were a team reborn in the final seven weeks of the season, pulling well clear of the drop zone to finish in the dizzy heights of 19th place. As a poignant juxtaposition, we’ve also left it late to look at just how we managed it…
OK, we’ve just been lazy, but it sounded good no?

It is fair to say that the last two months have been a disaster. Back in early January, it seemed we had finally started our season with 7 points from 3 games. It proved, however, to be a false dawn.

We’ve finally bitten the bullet and offer our take on recent developments.

Plunged to the bottom of League Two with the 1-2 reverse against Port Vale, a fug had consumed the terraces with the Conference trapdoor beckoning. Fast forward three weeks, and things are looking up.

It is crisis time at Dagenham and Redbridge FC. It wasn’t long ago that we talked about the Plymouth match in “must-win” terms – we lost that, and the next four. Seven straight defeats, one win in the last twelve matches. That, my friends, is relegation form.

Lately, the Daggers have been on the slide. A painful, jarring slide which makes you wince as you gradually drop to your inevitable fate, powerless to stop the force of gravity. Rather like when you were a child and made the mistake of going to the playground in your shorts before crying in agony as your legs screeched against the metal surface.

Putting the ball in the net. The simple aim of the game of football, yet one that can prove so difficult. Seven games into the season, and it is something the Daggers have managed only 4 times. With several players out injured, there is plenty of time for the tide to turn. But will it?